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There have been no new deaths and 102 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in the Republic, according to the Department of Health.
Of the cases reported today, 75% are under 45 years of age. 48% are confirmed to be associated with outbreaks or are close contacts of a confirmed case, while 19 cases have been identified as community transmission.
56 of the cases are in Dublin, 11 in Leitrim, six in Galway and 29 cases in Carlow, Cavan, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Tipperary, Westmeath and Wexford. .
During the past week, two new clusters in residential care centers were identified. 24 new cases have been confirmed in residential care facilities, eight of which are in nursing homes.
Six groups were identified at workplaces over the past week, none of which are in meat processing plants.
County warning
Dr. Ronan Glynn, Acting Medical Director, has issued a warning for Dublin and Limerick counties: “We are monitoring the number of cases nationwide with increasing concern, particularly in Limerick and Dublin. The next seven days are vital, everyone must reduce their contacts and assume that anyone they know can be a carrier of the virus. “
Dr. Glynn said that people should take all precautions and cut off social contacts. He said people must now assume that the virus is circulating in their community and that not taking proper precautions against it would mean “we will go back to places we don’t want to be in the next few weeks.”
When asked about a possible blockade of the counties, Dr. Glynn said: “The language of the blockade is really useless. If we have to recommend additional measures, it will be measures to protect people.”
“We still have control over this, we still have the power to change the trajectory of this.”
He said that every individual across the country had to have a higher risk perception outlook than what currently exists.
When asked about the current low death rate in the Republic, Dr. Glynn said the numbers can be comforted as “every death is too much”, however there was no long-term comfort as “we don’t have a scientific basis for assuming this the disease has changed “and we have no vaccine or treatment. He said that if cases continue to rise, a shift away from predominantly confirmed cases among younger people should be expected.
Cases
Nearly 360 new cases of Covid-19 were reported over the weekend at the highest figure since the beginning of May, as there has also been a steady increase in hospital admissions.
The incidence rate of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 in Ireland is now higher than in 20 other countries on the European continent, according to data from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Only ten countries in Europe now have a higher incidence rate of the virus among their populations than the Republic.
It occurs when 141 new cases of the virus were confirmed in the north today.
Another Covid-19-related death has also been reported in the region.
It brings the death toll in Northern Ireland to 565, while the number of cases stands at 7,868.
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